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Music overflowing with the elegance and grace of four masterful French composers fills the program when the Brevard Symphony Orchestra presents The French Connection on Today, January 21, 2017, at the King Center for the Performing Arts in Melbourne. Gabriel Faure's sweetly somber Pavane opens the concert, followed by one of the most famous works for cello and orchestra - the First Cello Concerto by Camille Saint-Saens. Rising star Cicely Parnas makes her BSO debut with this tuneful showpiece. After intermission, two suites originally composed for piano are heard in their orchestral versions - Claude Debussy's charming Petite Suite is a setting of four miniature tone pictures. Maurice Ravel's Le Tombeau de Couperin salutes not just the great French Baroque master Francois Couperin - but also serves as a musical tribute to friends and colleagues of Ravel's who were lost during World War I. 

Music overflowing with the elegance and grace of four masterful French composers fills the program when the Brevard Symphony Orchestra presents The French Connection on Saturday, January 21, 2017, at the King Center for the Performing Arts in Melbourne. Gabriel Faure's sweetly somber Pavane opens the concert, followed by one of the most famous works for cello and orchestra - the First Cello Concerto by Camille Saint-Saens. Rising star Cicely Parnas makes her BSO debut with this tuneful showpiece. After intermission, two suites originally composed for piano are heard in their orchestral versions - Claude Debussy's charming Petite Suite is a setting of four miniature tone pictures. Maurice Ravel's Le Tombeau de Couperin salutes not just the great French Baroque master Francois Couperin - but also serves as a musical tribute to friends and colleagues of Ravel's who were lost during World War I. 

48 HOURS: “Target Justice” was Saturday's #1 broadcast at 10:00 PM with viewers and adults 25-54, and posted week-to-week growth, according to Nielsen live plus same day ratings for Dec. 10.

This season marks the silver anniversary of Deborah Voigt's Metropolitan Opera debut, a milestone the Metropolitan Opera Guild looks forward to honoring at its annual luncheon this winter. Over the course of her long and distinguished career, however, the soprano has yet to help create a new opera. That changes this fall, when she stars in the Albany Symphony's orchestral premiere of Roscoe: An American Grand Opera by Evan Mack, who composed it expressly for her voice.

Composer David Mallamud's brain is a busy place. With a particular gift for compositions that fuse genres with his own unique perspective, the dynamic young composer's debut CD, 'The Wild & Whimsical Worlds of David Mallamud' (today, September 30, is the worldwide release on Broadway Records), brings the listener through a fanciful tour of time and place.

Broadway Records will soon release the world premiere of Composer David Mallamud's The Wild & Whimsical Worlds of David Mallamud, available digitally and in stores on Friday, September 30, 2016. The album is currently available for pre-order at www.BroadwayRecords.com and Amazon.com.

Alison Bolton has joined the staff of the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra as Director of Orchestra and Hall Operations.

Composer David Mallamud's brain is a busy place. With a particular gift for compositions that fuse genres with his own unique perspective, the dynamic young composer's debut CD, 'The Wild & Whimsical Worlds of David Mallamud' (September 30 worldwide release on Broadway Records), brings the listener through a fanciful tour of time and place.

48 HOURS: “Hannah Graham: Deadly Connections” (R) at 10:00 PM was Saturday's #1 prime program with viewers, according to Nielsen live plus same day ratings for June 11, 2016.

Albany Symphony proudly presents the American Music Festival taking place June 8-12, 2016. Many of the events will occur in Troy, NY and the festival has been greatly expanded, including outdoor concerts at Troy waterfront locations. Albany Symphony more than any other orchestra in the country is paving the way by wholeheartedly embracing new music and programming 18 world premieres by Clarice Assad, Jessie Montgomery, Loren Loiacono, Sleeping Giant, and many more works for their musicians and Dogs of Desire.

In January 2016, the Dogs of Desire, the Albany Symphony's rock-inspired new music ensemble, and Music Director David Alan Miller will perform and record a concert of American composer David Mallamud's most successful commissions for the ensemble over the past ten years, including his homage to Parisian music hall culture, Last Call at the Folies Bergere, the Glam-Metal Opera, Lizardman, (text by Broadway lyricist Michael Cooper) Victorian Parlor Songs, a salsa-drenched Latin Daytime Soap Opera, (text by Aaron Jafferis), and an Irish-inspired piece Immram. Both the public concert and private recording session will take place at Skidmore College's Zankel Hall in Saratoga Springs, NY.

The French Institute Alliance Française (FIAF) and the Prototype Festival are thrilled to present mezzo-soprano Audrey Babcock and baritone Christopher Burchett in a special concert reading of La Reina, an electro-acoustic opera from composer Jorge Sosa and librettist Laura Sosa Pedroza on Sunday, January 17 at 5pm at FIAF's Florence Gould Hall, 55 East 59th Street, betw. Madison and Park.

Beth Morrison Projects (BMP) and HERE present the fourth annual PROTOTYPE: Opera/Theatre/Now festival, running today, January 6, through January 17, 2016, in New York City.

48 HOURS PRESENTS: “Love and Death in Alaska” was Saturday's #1 broadcast program with adults 25-54 (including ties) and viewers, according to Nielsen live plus same day ratings for Dec. 26, 2015.

Archaeologist Howard Carter captured the world's imagination nearly a century ago when he made the astounding discovery of the undisturbed tomb of Tutankhamun. Beginning today, November 21, Premier Exhibitions 5th Avenue, 417 5th Avenue, NYC unveils The Discovery of King Tut, a new exhibition that provides an unparalleled opportunity to explore the legendary tomb and its treasures just as Carter found them.

Beth Morrison Projects (BMP) and HERE are pleased to announce full casting for the fourth annual PROTOTYPE: Opera/Theatre/Now festival, running January 6-17, 2016, in New York City. Deemed "suddenly indispensable" (New Yorker), this 'bracingly innovative' Festival, founded, directed, and curated by Kristin Marting (of HERE), Beth Morrison (of BMP), and Kim Whitener (of HERE), has quickly become 'a point of reference" in the field (The New York Times) over three astoundingly successful seasons.

48 HOURS: “The Doctor's Daughter” was Saturday's #1 non-sports broadcast with viewers, according to Nielsen live plus same day ratings for Oct. 3.

Archaeologist Howard Carter captured the world's imagination nearly a century ago when he made the astounding discovery of the undisturbed tomb of Tutankhamun. Beginning November 21, Premier Exhibitions 5th Avenue, 417 5th Avenue, NYC unveils The Discovery of King Tut, a new exhibition that provides an unparalleled opportunity to explore the legendary tomb and its treasures just as Carter found them.

To bring a new life to an undiscovered, underground gem, Termination Productions LLC will present 'The Head Hunter,' a dramatic encounter between a screenwriter and his mobster cousin, Off-Broadway at The Dorothy Streslin Theater October 31 to November 28, 2015. The play is written by Mark Borkowski, a New York-based playwright, screenwriter and actor who is now best known for playing Paul Sagorsky in the third and fourth seasons of HBO's Boardwalk Empire. Richard Gekko directs. It is a revival of a horrific yet hilarious two-hander that Backstage (Elias Stimac) labeled 'one of the best plays of 2000' when it debuted that year and which was showered with glowing web reviews during a modest resurrection in a studio theater last season.

48 HOURS: 'Decades of Deceit' was Saturday's #1 broadcast at 10:00 PM with adults 25-54, the demographic that matters most to those who advertise in news, adults 18-49 and viewers